During the media workshop at Art Camp 2025, participants focused on producing video projects for the camp’s final showcase. Working in smaller creative teams, they developed two short films exploring the broad topic of classism and social justice. While the results were completely different, the whole group could learn about film, cameras and directing as a team throughout the week.
Through a series of hands-on camera exercises, everyone gained confidence in filming techniques. To better realize our concepts, we also delved into film theory, which meant studying cinematic tools such as composition, filming and directing rules. By combining these techniques, we discovered how to evoke specific emotions and communicate our intended ideas to the audience. We collected the ideas, eventually shaping the vision of the films into storyboards and concepts.
Once shooting was complete, the groups learned to use video-editing software, merging their footage with audio and visual effects to produce the final cuts. One film envisions a post-apocalyptic future in which the world was overrun by a zombie virus and humanity was divided by money and power. Another imagines the pursuit and competition for money and influence in an abstract and visually engaging way. Much of the creative inspiration for these ideas came from the Kulturkosmos grounds, whose imaginative architecture and scenery served as perfect backdrops for the films.
Finally, participants from the media workshop also recorded and live-edited the final performance, transforming it into a real-time broadcast experience, almost like running an actual television studio. They practiced their handling and workflows on different occasions in the media workshop.